Former Pakistan Cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz Dies Due To Coronavirus

In a sad and shocking case, former Pakistan cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz, passed away after testing positive for COVID-19. He is the first professional cricketer to die of the deadly coronavirus. 

As per an ESPNCricinfo report, the 50-year-old cricketer had been on a ventilator in Pakistan's Peshawar city for the last three days. He breathed his last today. 

Highlighting about Sarfaraz's cricketing career, he made his debut in 1988 and from then on he score 616 runs from 15 first-class games for Peshawar. After retiring in 1994, he took up coaching of both the senior and the Under-19 Peshawar teams in the mid-2000s.

Looking the positive cases in Peshawar, it has 744 in total with nearly 5500 active cases in the country while more than 100 people have died from the coronavirus pandemic in Pakistan.